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" In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend? "
The Atlantic Monthly - Page 271
1896
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The Black Riders and Other Lines

Stephen Crane - American poetry - 1896 - 90 pages
...WITH QUAINT COUNTENANCES THEY REGARDED HIM. THEY WERE VERY CURIOUS, THOSE THREE LITTLE BIRDS IN A ROW. IN THE DESERT I SAW A CREATURE, NAKED, BESTIAL, WHO,...BECAUSE IT IS BITTER, "AND BECAUSE IT IS MY HEART." YES, I HAVE A THOUSAND TONGUES, AND NINE AND NINETY-NINE LIE. THOUGH I STRIVE TO USE THE ONE, IT WILL...
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The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life, Volume 3

Popular culture - 1896 - 688 pages
...Crane's Lines, which might serve Tut some purpose if pinned to the title-page of Jude t/ie Obscure : " In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial. Who,...friend ? ' ' It is bitter — bitter,' he answered . 1 But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.' " • Mrs. Oliphant's scathing...
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The Smith College Monthly, Volume 8

1900 - 614 pages
...quintessence of pessimism in this cynical appreciation of morbidness, by another latter-day poet: " In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who,...ate of it. I said, ' Is it good, friend ?' ' It is bitter—bitter,' he answered; ' But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.'"...
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Modern American Poetry: A Critical Anthology

Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1925 - 666 pages
...God, in all his splendor, Arose from his throne. "Oh, best little blade of grass!" he said. THE HEART In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who,..."Because it is bitter, "And because it is my heart." Edwin Ford Piper Edwin Ford Piper was born at Auburn, Nebraska, February 8, 1871, and literally grew...
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Modern American Poetry: A Critical Anthology

Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1925 - 664 pages
...God, in all his splendor, Arose from his throne. "Oh, best little blade of grass!" he said. THE HEART In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who,..."Because it is bitter, "And because it is my heart." Edwin Ford Piper Edwin Ford Piper was born at Auburn, Nebraska, February 8, 1871, and literally grew...
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Poets of America

Clement Wood - Poets, American - 1925 - 430 pages
...showed sharp vision. His method was an irregular blank verse, primarily iambic. His art is not kindly. In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who,...he answered; "But I like it, Because it is bitter, i And because it is my heart." He understood the source of the poet's lines, which is not a patent...
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Poets of America

Clement Wood - Poets, American - 1925 - 418 pages
...vision. His method was an irregular blank verse, primarily iambic. His art is not kindly. In the desert I said, "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter, bitter,"...Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart." He understood the source of the poet's lines, which is not a patent sonnet-machine : Many red devils...
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The Work of Stephen Crane, Volumes 5-6

Stephen Crane - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 - 1926 - 378 pages
...quaint countenances They regarded him. They were very curious, Those three little birds in a row. III In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who,...heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it goodjriend?" "It is bitter — bitter" he answered; "But I like it Because it is bitter, And because...
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Portraits in Color

Mary White Ovington - African Americans - 1927 - 262 pages
...His Heart. In some magazine she had seen a poem of Stephen Crane's that furnished her inspiration. In the desert, I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who,...ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. To look at this figure and then at the young woman who had created it, was to understand the astonishment...
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Graphic Worlds of Peter Bruegel the Elder

H. Arthur Klein, Pieter Bruegel - Design - 1963 - 177 pages
...Dame Envy does here. One recalls, with a difference, the stark poem of Stephen Crane, "The Heart": In the desert I saw a creature, naked bestial, Who,...like it "Because it is bitter "And because it is my heat1." The Flemish verse below the picture, freely rendered, declares: Envy, endless death and sickness...
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